Alexander Lowen Quotes

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart. Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to use all of my parts. Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are not separate entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same human being.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

People cultivate these fully formed personalities.

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

My heart forgives and releases. Inner peace is my goal.